From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add user content APIs for WebKit Xwidgets Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:07:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2lyu98i.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9778"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: qhong@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 06:08:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBsAN-0002S4-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 06:08:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47242 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBsAM-00024x-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBs9o-0001Ge-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBs9n-0000T7-Ts; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kBs9n-0002JD-30; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:07:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y2lyu98i.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:37:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254374 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > The script message handler API makes it possible to trigger event in emacs > > from JavaScript, and can be used to implement procedure calling from > > js to elisp. Currently only the other way around is possible. > That sounds really scary, though. What are the security implications > here? That is an important concern. Another importan concern: what are the moral implications of making Emacs a platform for running nonfree Javascript code that users get from web sites? It looks like that has in effect already been done; is that so? There should have been a discussion about _whether_ Emacs should support that, and if so, how to include something comparable to LibreJS. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)